When Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. stayed in St. Augustine in 1964, he was shuffled from house to house to maintain his safety; held strategy meetings with local civil rights leaders; and stirred crowds at churches that still exist in the city today.
He planned to use St. Augustine as a platform to bring about national change for civil rights, but became part of a movement that sought a local transformation. While the effort sparked obvious changes, officials say work still remains.
Dr. Benjamin Chavis, former leader of the NAACP and current president of the National Newspaper Publishers Association, worked for King as a youth coordinator for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. He became involved when he was 14.